Monday, April 06, 2009
stability
It is so easy for people to come to live with others as if they were living alone. All they have to do is to stop noticing one another. But that is not a spiritual community at all. I need the conscious presence of other people to become sensitive to God's presence, to hear the gospel Word in life through those who are speaking it around me, and to be able to express my love for Christ in a real way, in the other, in the world. Stability is the one sure tool we have to be certain that the world, for us, can really become a garden to be tilled rather than a candy store to be robbed.
-- Sr. Joan Chittister, O.S.B. Wisdom Distilled From the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
-- Sr. Joan Chittister, O.S.B. Wisdom Distilled From the Daily: Living the Rule of St. Benedict Today
